Zack Dye's powerful debut collection travels from sea to sea, shining a light on the ways our country's systems of oppression twist our sense of identity, freedom, love, and loss into an American mythos we wear like a hairshirt. Dye's unique experience as a white-presenting Mexican American, as a person who has climbed up and down the socio-economic ladder, and as someone who has lived and traveled across the country, produces a unique voice, sometimes pulling the reader in, sometimes shoving us away angrily, leaving us shaken."Zack Dye's poems channel Walt Whitman, if the American everyman had been writing more often from a place of blazing rage. With verses that can encompass both the immensity of time and the wonder of a jelly donut, Dye's collection speaks to our struggle to stay human in a pixelated world." -Eliza Stricland, Senior Editor at IEEE Spectrum"Zack Dye's poetry expresses fleeting moments of joy and knowledge in the midst of confusion, misunderstanding, frustration, anger, and self-deception, engendered by the false dichotomies of race, language, and otherness in America."-Jean Harkin, Author of Night in Alcatraz: and Other Uncanny Tales"The song of a self with calloused feet and open heart, tumbling and vulnerable, raw and hopeful, inescapably honest."- Brandon Keim, author of The Eye of the Sandpiper